I went to Westport High School in Kansas City in the early 50's. There was a small car we called the trolley that had been horse drawn and then converted to electricity, It ran along 39th street from State Line to Westport and when I had the fare, took it to school. We joyed in pulling off the contact which made the driver take his rheostat handle so we would not hide that and go back & put it back on and hopefully proceed. He was lucky to only have one such stop during a run. We also enjoyed putting pennies under the wheels and proudly showed the flattened coin off and did take some grief it was illegal and the Secret Service might get us into trouble. The braver ones put a 22 bullet under the wheels to get a bang out of the bang. Lots of other cars had electric motors as well. On the way to school at the crest of a hill, would put some lard on the tracks and the car would get stuck. That was about as much mischief as we got into in those days. Our true heroes were the folks at MIT who welded the wheels to the tracks!! Bill Houdek bhoudek@swbell.net